ECON 106F
Finance
Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 102. Enforced corequisite: course 106FB. Not open for credit to students with credit for Management 130A. Only one course from Economics 106F and Management 130A may be applied toward Economics and Business Economics majors. Enrollment priority to Business Economics majors. Introduction to principles of asset valuation and role of financial markets in market economy. Basic topics include time value of money, discounted cash flow analysis, CAPM model, and applications to public policy. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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This prof. is absolutely horrible. He assigns you TONS of reading, but he does not explain anything. All he does is he reads the overhead, but does not explain anything whatsoever. And the overheads are just simply the main ideas literally speaking copied from the book. If people ask him a question in class and he does not have time to cover the new material then you are responsible on your own to figure it all out. Next class he goes on to a new topic before he covered the material from the previous class. Absolutely ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I had never signed up for the class...I will have to take finance with someone else to really learn something.
This prof. is absolutely horrible. He assigns you TONS of reading, but he does not explain anything. All he does is he reads the overhead, but does not explain anything whatsoever. And the overheads are just simply the main ideas literally speaking copied from the book. If people ask him a question in class and he does not have time to cover the new material then you are responsible on your own to figure it all out. Next class he goes on to a new topic before he covered the material from the previous class. Absolutely ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I had never signed up for the class...I will have to take finance with someone else to really learn something.
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Winter 2022 - This was a pretty useful and easy class, definitely recommend it as a 106 elective. There were 4 lab projects to be done with a group. They could be confusing at times, but were relatively straightforward as long as you reviewed the prompt thoroughly and pay attention to what he says. They were mostly graded on a completion/try your best basis - my group made reasonable estimates/assumptions when we got confused and scored full credit on all the labs, despite our accuracy being off at times. Just be sure to clearly list out the assumptions you made. Class is pretty boring and I only went to one session, since they were recorded on zoom for us (due to Covid). He doesn't really add much content besides what's on the slides themselves, although he usually clarifies/elaborates on topics a bit so I would recommend watching every lecture at least once at 2x speed or something. Exams were based almost exclusively on the practice problems and practice exams he gave us, as well as the example problems in the slides. Review the problems, exams, and slides well and you should be good to go for the exams. Some reviews recommend doing all of the problems rather than just the highlighted ones, but this would take forever since there are so many practice problems. I just did the highlighted ones (in addition to exams + slides) and scored a comfortable A in the class. Exams were a mix of multiple choice and short response, and timing was definitely an issue for me on the midterm, so be prepared to work as fast as possible. For our in-person final (midterm was online), he allowed us to bring one cheat sheet (front and back), which was more than enough space for the necessary formulas and examples. All in all, pretty straightforward class. He can be unresponsive to emails at times, but he usually responds within a week or so unless the email gets lost in his inbox. TA's were helpful my quarter. You definitely don't need to read through the textbook. A lot of the topics were certainly interesting...for a lot of us it was our first time learning about investing, bonds, loans, valuation, and forecasting. More practical than probably all the other econ courses I have taken here.
Winter 2022 - This was a pretty useful and easy class, definitely recommend it as a 106 elective. There were 4 lab projects to be done with a group. They could be confusing at times, but were relatively straightforward as long as you reviewed the prompt thoroughly and pay attention to what he says. They were mostly graded on a completion/try your best basis - my group made reasonable estimates/assumptions when we got confused and scored full credit on all the labs, despite our accuracy being off at times. Just be sure to clearly list out the assumptions you made. Class is pretty boring and I only went to one session, since they were recorded on zoom for us (due to Covid). He doesn't really add much content besides what's on the slides themselves, although he usually clarifies/elaborates on topics a bit so I would recommend watching every lecture at least once at 2x speed or something. Exams were based almost exclusively on the practice problems and practice exams he gave us, as well as the example problems in the slides. Review the problems, exams, and slides well and you should be good to go for the exams. Some reviews recommend doing all of the problems rather than just the highlighted ones, but this would take forever since there are so many practice problems. I just did the highlighted ones (in addition to exams + slides) and scored a comfortable A in the class. Exams were a mix of multiple choice and short response, and timing was definitely an issue for me on the midterm, so be prepared to work as fast as possible. For our in-person final (midterm was online), he allowed us to bring one cheat sheet (front and back), which was more than enough space for the necessary formulas and examples. All in all, pretty straightforward class. He can be unresponsive to emails at times, but he usually responds within a week or so unless the email gets lost in his inbox. TA's were helpful my quarter. You definitely don't need to read through the textbook. A lot of the topics were certainly interesting...for a lot of us it was our first time learning about investing, bonds, loans, valuation, and forecasting. More practical than probably all the other econ courses I have taken here.
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Professor Lustig is awesome. Super nice guy. If you don't understand something, definitely go talk to him. His lectures are great, though it was hard at 8am. Definitely take the midterm--much easier than the final. Reading the book helps a lot because he just follows it mostly. Really not that difficult of a class and you learn some very useful info.
Professor Lustig is awesome. Super nice guy. If you don't understand something, definitely go talk to him. His lectures are great, though it was hard at 8am. Definitely take the midterm--much easier than the final. Reading the book helps a lot because he just follows it mostly. Really not that difficult of a class and you learn some very useful info.
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